Archives for 4 May 2013

The goal is simple - sterilise as many dogs as they can find money to do so
The mission - find money to sterilise as many dogs as they can
Spinoffs - Education. Dipping. Euthanizing. Feeding.
Background - Wells Estate is a small community opposite Scribante on road to Markman on outskirts of Port Elizabeth. It may be smaller than the well known Motherwell, but the need is just as great and help is scarce. The dogs are left to fend for themselves, roaming as far as Bluewater Bay to look for food or an end to their suffering. This is where Bernadette Meistre and Hazel Grey stepped in. They started to help these dogs and it almost became a full time job. Two years ago they decided that in some way these dogs had to be saved. After much planning, talking and praying the dream has finally become reality.
With the help of funds donated from the Port Elizabeth Pet Expo 2012, dog food from Montego leftover from expo and Animal Anti Cruelty League facilitating the vet care needed, Wells Estate Project is a GO! Four female dogs were sterilised on 24 April 2013. Another TEN will be sterilised 8 May. More dates to hopefully follow. Funds collected thusfar will only sterilise 50. That's a drop in the ocean. The people of this community are begging for their dogs to be "closed up" as they call it. Three hundred rand makes a world of difference for one dog. Thousands of rands are needed to solve the crisis.
Wishlist - that every dog will at least be sterilised, have a bowl of food, water and a blanket. Basic necessities many take for granted.
Author: Bernadette Meistre
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Boundaries of both audiences and performers are extended with the Performance Art offering from the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
In a performance cycle entitled Anthea Moys vs. The City of Grahamstown, the (first ever) Standard Bank Young Artist for Performance Art, Anthea Moys, will compete against the people of Grahamstown in a tournament of skill, strength, and artistry. Over a series of seven contests over seven days, outnumbered and outclassed, Moys will single-handedly do battle against Grahamstown’s best teams: its athletes, its artists and its intellects... Moys has spent three months prior to the Festival learning the skills she will need, from the teams and cultural groups against which she will be competing, and these contests will be documented in a living exhibition that will grow and evolve over the course of the Festival, as the documentation for each of the performances is installed in the Monument Gallery.
Swiss artist/performer Yann Marussich is a unique character of the contemporary dance genre, and delivers performances which have a striking impact on the audience. Disturbing, provocative and authentic, his performances and choreography have been staged across Europe and other parts of the world since 1989. In Bleu Remix, Marussich, returns to the theme he explored in 2001 in the Bleu Provisoire creation, when he let a mysterious blue liquid ooze as blood would, through the layers of his skin, as though it was a final effect or a by¬product of his body’s inner processes. Each time Bleu Remix has been performed, a different musician has accompanied Marussich. The spontaneous meeting of two artists brings further elements of risk and uniqueness to the event, as the music explores the creation over and over again and depicts new ways of perception. In Bain Brisé, Marussich is covered under a mountain of glass shards in a bathtub from which he slowly emerges over the course of 90 minutes. The initial sense of danger is interfered by the astonishing aesthetic realm of the work... the crystal-like reflection of the glass in the light, and its reflection on the wall, and the slow and gracious movements of the body.
Since the introduction of the Standard Bank Ovation Award in 2010, Gavin Krastin has won a Standard Bank Ovation Award each year for his off-the-wall creative interventions in public spaces, and for his work as a … [Read more...]